Usa "portent" in una frase
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portent
1. thunderstorm, which must have been a portent of things
2. told Ralof to take the encounter as a portent of things to come
3. Like an omen, a portent
4. After Pearl Harbor, Admiral Yamamoto uttered his famous portent, “I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant and filled her with a terrible resolve
5. with a portent of those things forthcoming
6. ” He ended in a voice ominous with the portent of any such failure
7. He ended in a voice ominous with the portent of any such failure
8. The stone had to be the portent he was ordered to await
9. How swiftly came my dream’s repass, that awful portent of my cost: my life, without a ransom chance
10. through the region, a portent of the coming of winter
11. what was their portent?
12. This perhaps accounts for that terrible, manic laugh which, once emitted from his sweetheart, still troubles Ambrosius to this day, and is a grim portent for the decline of the City into a slowly lethal madness should a new supply of fish not be found
13. The air grew cooler, filling with portent
14. “ This afternoon brings with it a portent of good luck, as you’re about to receive the real kiss from Poseidon, himself
15. appearance of that notable portent
16. ‘The Wild Hunt, a portent of doom,’ he said grimly
17. He is a portent of the Hour, so have no doubt about it, and follow Me
18. CALVES DOWN IN PORTENT TO REST AS MUCH AS YOU NEED HERE BUT IF YOU DO NOT NEED IT OR RESTED ENOUGH NEXT PICTURE WHEN YOU ARE READY
19. And the equine portent grows again, magnified in the deserted heavens, nay to heaven's own magnitude, till it looms, vast, over the house of Virgo
20. “It would be a sin to ignore such a portent
21. “But did your reverence hear of the portent that was seen last night?—a great red letter in the sky,—the letter A, which we interpret to stand for Angel
22. We have thrown all the light we could acquire upon the portent, and would gladly, now that it has done its office, erase its deep print out of our own brain; where long meditation has fixed it in very undesirable distinctness
23. A portent to aspire to, but one’s own hands—not the hands of Pat in close-up doing Vanna’s thing
24. Don Jose bowed to these arguments and tried to dismiss from his mind the gold-laced portent in boots, and with a sabre, made meaningless now at last, he hoped, in the new order of things
25. Wasn't he looking, through the haunted pane, for something he couldn't see?—and wasn't it the first time in the whole business that he had known such a lapse? The first, the very first: I found it a splendid portent
26. “Wherefore useless?” O I took this Word as fearful Portent of my own Fate
27. Indeed, in some sort, they were not grieved at this event, at least as a portent; for they regarded it, not as a foreshadowing of evil in the future, but as the fulfilment of an evil already presaged
